Our neighbors are wonderful people.  Wonderful.  Seriously, I couldn’t ask for better people in my neighborhood.  There is ONE neighbor, however, who lives about a block up our other street (our house sits on a corner) who is a tremendously bitter person.  And he hates our cat, who constantly escapes…

Every year I try to go up the North Shore in the early/mid autumn season to see the inland maples on the hills that sweep down to Lake Superior.  I’ve made it up there every year, although I fretted it would not happen this year.  We went apple picking the…